Why did you adopt

For some reason adoption brings out a curiosity in people and they forget to respect boundaries when asking adoptive parents questions. One of the questions parents are asked is “Does it bother you that the adopted child won’t be your own?”

Adoption and giving birth to your own child are different ways of creating a family, one is through your DNA and the other through your heart, both create a family. The love that you feel for your child is pure and real, there is nothing different about it. Add Angelina Jolie quote that there is no difference.

You don’t have to give birth to somebody to have a family, we are all extended family. – Sandra Bullock

Here are a few answers you will feel comfortable saying in front of your children.

Go ahead, and vote for the best comeback.

Vote for the best reply when people ask if you wish you had a biological child

A family isn't made of blood it's made of love.

I gave birth to them through my heart.

It's not the soil you're born from or born into, but the water that's consistently and lovingly poured upon you and the sun that shines on you.

A woman had just finished a game of tennis, when a lady asks her if she is a friend of Amber, a mutual friend. The lady then comments that she heard she had adopted a child from China. The woman” then rudely asks, “Why did you adopt her?” Amy replies, ” Well, Angelina was busy and Madonna didn’t want anymore bad publicity.”